Accessing the Django admin interface

To access our database, we have to go into the Django admin interface. Remember that there is an admin path in /moviereviews/urls.py?

…
urlpatterns = [
    path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
    path('', movieViews.home),
    path('about/', movieViews.about),
    path('signup/', movieViews.signup, name='signup'),
]

If you go to localhost:8000/admin, it brings you to the admin site (as shown in Figure 5.5):

Figure 5.5 – Admin page

Django has a powerful built-in admin interface that provides a visual way of managing all aspects of a Django project – for example, managing users and making changes to model data.

With what username and password do we log in to Admin? We will have to first create a superuser in the Terminal.

In the Terminal, run the following.

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